... premodern postmodern charm transactual political culture universal embrace ...

... irreconcilable. It portrays Mandela as a politician who made the profession seem noble, but who knew when and how to compromise. To many observers, he was premodern in that he was very much a product of the tribal tradition of a chief accountable to his people, making them all feel important and representing...

... the premodern curfew to its modern forms, and uses contemporary critical theory and political theory about emergency to understand what role the night plays in the efficacy and political limits of this political technology. curfew emergency sanctuary desire governance ...

... of the left-right distinction is not the crisis of parliamentary democracy after the collapse of communism but the incomplete and accidental manner in which modern politics inherits the very premodern political forms it presumes to overturn and reject. Yet even though contemporary politics might remain bound...

... and categories through metamorphosis, and (2) as transaction that involves various effects, including the possibility of harms—caused by what the book labels “curative violence”—as well as what are considered benefits. Premodern conceptions of disability as well as the modern history of Korea are briefly...

...—the spaces of premodern governance and industry but also of the palaces that line the Grand Canal, and churches and their belltowers. It considers the Venetians who have long inhabited the lagoon, somewhat marginalized in relationship to the architecture of Venice’s past but on whose shoulders the city’s...

... the profession seem noble, but who knew when and how to compromise. To many observers, he was premodern in that he was very much a product of the tribal tradition of a chief accountable to his people, making them all feel important and representing them with great dignity and a regal bearing. Yet he was also...

... that the real source of the left-right distinction is not the crisis of parliamentary democracy after the collapse of communism but the incomplete and accidental manner in which modern politics inherits the very premodern political forms it presumes to overturn and reject. Yet even though contemporary politics...

... countries in the Global South as premodern in relation to the presumably more modern United States. By presenting popular Latin music as rooted in ancient, static traditions, Zumba Fitness brands itself as peddling real Latin American cultures even though, ultimately, their representations are rooted...

... traditions of the Balga tribes against familiar Maussian ideas and the models of parasitism suggested by Michel Serres, this chapter argues that hospitality, as Bedouin know it, is constructed in ways that resist the romanticism that besets anthropological portraits of “pre-capitalist” and “premodern” gift...

... reacquainted with the food we eat by settling for high-tech traceback schemes and/or searching for connection on the artisanal side of a premodern/modern divide, this chapter argues that there are compelling reasons to foster more intimate engagements with the conditions of food production, regardless...

... with the food we eat by settling for high-tech traceback schemes and/or searching for connection on the artisanal side of a premodern/modern divide, this chapter argues that there are compelling reasons to foster more intimate engagements with the conditions of food production, regardless of the abstracted...

... tribes against familiar Maussian ideas and the models of parasitism suggested by Michel Serres, this chapter argues that hospitality, as Bedouin know it, is constructed in ways that resist the romanticism that besets anthropological portraits of “pre-capitalist” and “premodern” gift economies...